Re: [Tile-dev] Using ttk::dialog with a 'withdrawn' root window

[Christian S. <chr...@su...>]

Ah! I see. Thanks a lot. 

br. Chr.

Tirsdag den 20. Marts 2007 skrev Will Duquette:
> I'm a Tile newbie myself, but I suspect you need to set the dialog's
> "-parent" option explicitly to "".  Otherwise, it thinks it's transient
> with respect to ".", which isn't visible, and that might prevent it from
> displaying.  For what it's worth.
>
> Will Duquette
>
> On Mar 19, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Christian Surlykke wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm sorry if this is too newbeish.
> >
> > If I call 'withdraw' on the root window, I cannot make a
> > ttk::dialog show on
> > the screen. This little script shows my problem:
> >
> > <snippet>
> > package require tile
> > wm title . "Root window"
> > toplevel .tl
> > ttk::dialog .dlg -type okcancel
> > wm withdraw .
> > </snippet>
> >
> > With this, the dialog doesn't show.
> >
> > If I comment out the line "wm withdraw .", then the dialog shows
> > ok, but then
> > I have the root window on screen.
> >
> > How can I withdraw the root and show a ttk::dialog?
> >
> > -- Context:
> >
> > I'm trying to write an app, which is to sit as a tray-icon in the
> > system tray
> > and there should be no root window on the screen. When the icon is
> > clicked a
> > pop-up menu appears, and some of the entries in that menu should
> > launch a
> > ttk::dialog.
> > I use tktray1.1 (http://wiki.tcl.tk/5972) which is a toplevel
> > widget, but as
> > the snippet above demonstrates, my problem seems not to be related  to
> > tktray.
> >
> > I'm running tcl8.5a5, tk8.5a5 and tile-0.7.8. It's compiled from
> > sources on
> > debian unstable, and I run the app in KDE 3.5.6
> >
> >
> > -- Disclaimer:
> >
> > I use Tk and Tile from Ruby, and my tcl-skills are in the category
> > just below
> > pathetic. Therefore this mail may be nonsense, in which case I
> > appologize.
> >
> > br. Christian Surlykke
> >
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